Denatured alcohol containing dimethallyl ether



TENT OFFICE UNITED STATES DENATURED ALCOHOL CONTAINING DIMETHALLYL ETHER Louis J. Figg, Jr., Kingsport, Tenn., assignor to Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y., a corporation of New Jersey No Drawing. Application September 28, 1937, Serial No. 166,120

1 Claim. (Cl. 202-77) This invention relates to the denaturing of ethyl alcohol, and to alcohol so denatured.

It is an object of my invention to provide a denaturant which will render ethyl alcohol connaturant, I may use from 0.5 to 5 parts of dimethallyl ether, or even more, per 100 parts of 95% alcohol. Dimethallyl ether may be used alone in denaturing, or it may be used in con- 5 mining it unfit for use as a beverage, which canjunction with denaturing materials derived from 5 not be economically removed from the alcohol the destructive distillation of hardwood, such as by any known methods, which will not render the those which are described in my U. S. Patents alcohol unfit for industrial uses in which de- Nos. 1,975,090, and ikenatured alcohol has customarily been employed, Wise, it may be used in conjunction with amino W and which Will be free from methanol. Other obomp un W y other denatlllants with 10 jects will hereinafter appear. which it may be found tobe compatible.

I have discovered that dimethallyl ether is an What I claim as my invention and desire to be efiective denaturant for alcohol. Dimethallyl secured by Letters Patent of the United States is:

ether has the structural formula Industrial ethyl alcohol denatured with 0.5 15

CH5 CH3 oHe=o-oHeo-oHe-o=oHe In denaturing ethyl alcohol with my novel deto- 5 parts of dimethallyl ether, as an essential denaturing element, per 100 parts of 95% ethyl alcohol.

LOUIS J. FIGG, JR. 

